Hi, I want to build gentoo on my computer using gentoo 1.3b, gcc3.1. I looked in various forums but nobody seems to have completely optimized settings for the k6 processor.

Right now all I know is that since I only plan to run my code on my machine, I want it as fast as possible. I'm aiming for speed here! So in make.conf I took out mcpu=k6 and I changed march=k6 to march=k6-2 because I hear gcc3.1 works just great with that.

If anyone has any information that I could add to my make.conf I would really appreciate it. Maybe other people can use this post as a reference for optimizing their k6 processors in the future.

why put -mmmx in the CFLAGS? isnt it on by default? I really dont know.

I don't know either, but my reading of the GCC manual did not indicate to me that simply specifying arch=k6 would enable MMX, and with my K6-200 being as slow and geriatric as it is, I wasn't in the mood for playing around with compiler optimization flags . I figured it couldn't hurt to specify it explicitly._________________For every higher wall, there is a taller ladder